Spoon
- Object Name:
- Spoon
- Object ID:
- 1960.006.05.1
- Creator:
- Beasom, William D. & Company
- Place of Origin:
- Nashua, NH
- Date:
- circa 1849
- Description:
- Tablespoon. Silver. Downturned double swell fiddle handle with rounded end, rounded shoulders and egg-shaped bowl. "P.R." engraved in script on front of handle. "W.D. BEASOM & CO." and "NASHUA" in upper case letters stamped in rectangles on back of handle. One of a pair.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver - Dimensions:
- W-1.625 L-8.25 inches
- Provenance:
- One of a pair of spoons given with the owner's initials P.R. Note from donor and her sister -- Miss Edith Hersey (b.c.1878) and Miss Mary J. Hersey (1874-1964) -- explains that these spoons belonged to their grandmother, Polly Emery Rowe (1809-1868), of Andover, NH. Polly Emery married Jacob Rowe (1807-1877), also of Andover, in 1834. The maker's mark is of silversmith William Dutton Beasom (1810-1870) of Nashua, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Edith S. Hersey
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